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Integrated geological and petrographic study supporting the interpretation of ancient artefacts: the case history of Palagonia area (SE Sicily)
No full textA little area located in the northern margin of the Hyblean Plateau (SE Sicily), close to the little town of Palagonia (administrative territory of Catania), in the archaeological area of Caltagirone, was studied by means of geological and petrographic integrated surveys.
The starting point for the study was the occasional discovery of
an uninterpreted ancient artefact, whose manufacture was our
subject of interest.
The geological-geomorphological study consists of detailed field
mapping at 1:10.000 scale and of the reconstruction of the stratigraphy and of the hydrogeological setting of the site.
The area is characterized by a succession of interbedded volcanic
and sedimentary litotypes ranging in time from the late
Pliocene to Holocene affected by tectonic episodes causing the
14 formation of a graben-horst setting.
In detail, the find is located close to a graben whose floor was
occupied by a lake (now disappeared) in the Holocene time, representing
a superficial aquifer system. Furthermore, the detailed
reconstruction of the stratigraphic succession, represented by a
thick horizon of vulcanoclastites (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene)
overlapped by a thin level of calcarenites (early Pleistocene) was
coupled with petrographic investigations, that emphasized the
degree of alteration of the volcanoclastic sequence, as testified by
the widespread occurrence of secondary authigenic minerals such
as clayey material that substitute volcanic glass and primary minerals
and, at the same time, fills in the open vesicles; this process
determines an increase in impermeability of the site’s substratum
compared to the overlying calcarenite. Thus, the geological and petrographic
data suggest the presence during the recent past, of a
shallow unconfined aquifer.
The collected data, that testify a probable high availability of
water, are in agreement with the direct observation of the ancient
artefact, mainly represented by a system of circular and squared
chambers linked by narrow trenches, of which we also estimated
potential the water amount that could be stored in
Italian dialetti in audiovisual translation: perspectives on three quality TV series
No full textIn this contribution we have decided to investigate into the translating strategies of famous and successful Italian productions that are strongly characterised by the use of dialect. If on the one hand dialect lends narratives an undisputed quality of authenticity, although, as shall be seen, it is always a crafted representation in which specific traits have been chosen, its presence makes translation into a target language and culture quite challenging. In particular, apart from focusing on Il Commissario Montalbano (Camilleri 1999-in production), we meant to include other Italian productions that have in recent times been considered quality productions and have been profitably exported abroad such as Romanzo criminale (Sollima 2008-2010) and Gomorra (Saviano 2014-in production). These two series, together with Il Commissario Montalbano and 1992 (Accorsi 2015), have been recognised as an undisputed success abroad (Pallante 2017), but the three we have selected for this investigation share interesting narrative and stylistic features. After a brief introduction on the most typically reproduced features of the three Italian dialects under analysis, in what follows we aim to identify the crucial dialectal elements that are picked up by screenwriters first and translators afterwards to achieve characterisation (and to certain extent also stereotypisation), and to shed some light on the translating strategies by comparing and contrasting choices that have been made in products belonging to the same genre and sharing many stylistic features
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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